For example, in recent years the State, Territory and local governments have been funding a greater proportion of publichospital services and overall health services, and the Australian Government a lesser proportion (see Chart 3

The population and hospitalspending projections are shown in figures 2 to 4. The importance of this age shift is shown in figure 3. Hospitalspending per person in constant 2003 dollars is already highly skewed towards the elderly. The combination ... Figure 3: HospitalSpending per Person by Age 90+ Regional Implications Table ... and hospital operating transfer spending from the Public Accounts over the latest available

of the previous year, with an additional 454, 000 persons in Queensland acquiring hospital ... residents covered by private hospital insurance was 42.4 percent in the March quarter ... Moreover, private patients can still elect to be public patients for many

Hospitalcosts follow a similarly steep age-profile, while Medicare costs also rise with age, though less steeply. • Figure 14 Costs of hospitals and drugs rise with age Publichospitals Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Females $ per person Males ...Costs per person in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme are strongly age-related — average costs for a male aged 65-74 are more than 18 times those for a male aged 15-24 ... factors will serve to steepen or flatten the age-cost profiles of health care

4.4 The Mean Cost Per Standardized Hospitalization In The Italian PublicHospital ... Therefore one has to divide the cost (per hospital facility) by the point ... of the average cost per standardized hospitalization in the hospital organizations.

over 75 years causes almost 7 times more public health expenditure than a person aged ... in the future, the hospitalexpenditure when we distinguish survival status is lower than when we do not distinguish it. The difference in the projected hospitalexpenditure ... Graph 13 Median projection of per-capita hospitalexpenditure distinguishing survival status without distinguishing